LIVE WEBINAR
Treatment Options for Severe Trigeminal Neuralgia
Exploring the roles of radiofrequency ablation and balloon compression, microvascular decompression and SRS Gamma Knife treatment.
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TUESDAY 11 MAY 2021 | 18:00 BST
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Overview
This webinar brings together leaders from The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery – Queen Square, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and King’s College Hospital.
Mr Jonathan Hyam, Mr Nik Haliasos and Mr Sinan Barazi will provide insightful information on treatment options for patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN). Exploring the roles of radiofrequency ablation and balloon compression, microvascular decompression and Gamma Knife.
The Programme will include:
- Mr Jonathan Hyam – Understand Trigeminal Neuralgia and Gamma Knife treatment for patients and its benefits.
- Mr Nik Haliasos discussing Percutaneous procedures.
- Mr Sinan Barazi – Understanding Trigeminal nerve microvascular decompression as a treatment option for patients with classic Trigeminal Neuralgia and its benefits.
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Agenda
Introduction
Mr Jonathan HyamMicrovascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia
Mr Sinan BaraziLesioning the Trigeminal Nerve for symptomatic patients
Mr Nik HaliasosGamma Knife Radiosurgery For Trigeminal Neuralgia
Mr Jonathan HyamLive discussion and Q&A
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Faculty
Mr Jonathan Hyam
MBB, BSc(Hons), FHEA, PgDipLATHE(Oxon), Dip(MicroSurg), FRCS(NeuroSurg), PhD(Oxon)
Mr Hyam is a consultant Brain & Comprehensive Spinal neurosurgeon at The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square. He is an Honorary consultant in Neurosurgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
His specialist expertise includes craniofacial and cranioplastic surgery, tumours such as meningioma, gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery for tumours, trigeminal neuralgia and glossopharyngeal neuralgia, treatment of spinal stenosis and disc prolapse within the neck and lower spine, deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, tremor, facial pain and dystonia.
Mr Hyam has received numerous national and international prizes and honours. He has received America’s Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ Resident Prize for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery which was awarded in Washington, DC. He also received UCL and Queen Square's Prize in Neurosurgery.
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Mr Nikolaos Haliasos
MD FRCS
Mr Haliasos completed his medical studies at the University of Rome in 2001 with magna cum laude distinction. He then continued his research studies in the USA with a scholarship in John’s Hopkins Medical School.
Mr Haliasos trained as neurosurgeon at the prestigious North Thames rotation in London. He subspecialised in neuro-oncology, functional neurosurgery, and facial pain. He has been the recipient of academic grants doing research on active problems of his field while he has authored several peer-reviewed publications.
Mr Haliasos has been a Consultant Neurosurgeon since 2013 and his areas of interest are brain tumours, facial pain, movement disorders, spinal pathologies, and hydrocephalus. His career mission is to understand patient needs and offer them solutions to their problems.
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Mr Sinan Barazi
BSc FRCS (Neurosurgery), MRCSEd MB BS
Sinan Barazi attended Winchester College before starting Medical School in London. He qualified from King’s College Hospital School of Medicine in 1996, and completed his internship/house jobs a year later.
After completing the Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2002, he started his Higher Surgical Training in Neurosurgery in London, working at King’s College Hospital, Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, St. George’s Hospital, and Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre. He completed the FRCS (Neurosurgery) in 2009. At the end of his training he completed a fellowship in endoscopic pituitary surgery in Bologna under the supervision of Dr Giorgio Frank.
Following completion of the FRCS, he trained under Andrew King and Scott Rutherford in Manchester as Neurosurgical Skull Base Fellow.
Mr Barazi was appointed as a Consultant Neurosurgeon to King’s College Hospital in 2010, with sub-specialty interests in facial pain, endoscopic pituitary/anterior skull base surgery and lateral skull base surgery. He has great knowledge and expertise in treating spinal disorders involving symptoms of back pain, neck pain, sciatica, arm pain and the degenerative spine.
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Target Audience
This webinar aims to educate the following:
- Neurosurgeon / Consultant Neurosurgeon
- Consultant Neuroradiologist
- Medical Physics
- Facial Pain Practitioner
- Radiation Therapist
- Diagnostic Neuroradiologist
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Therapeutic Radiographer
- Charity TN groups
- Headache Specialist Nurses
- Dental Practitioners
- Dental Pain Clinical Nurses
- Oral Surgeons
- Head and Face Pain Specialist
Please note this event attracts 2 CPD credits.
Learning Objectives
During this session we aim to present:
- Understanding when Trigeminal Neuralgia pain becomes unbearable and escapes medication therapies.
- Option of symptomatic pain relief procedures called radiofrequency ablation and balloon compression of Trigeminal nerve.
- Understanding Trigeminal nerve microvascular decompression as a treatment option for patients with classic Trigeminal Neuralgia and its benefits.
- Understand Gamma Knife treatment for patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia and its benefits.
- Live discussion and Q&A
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Partners
This virtual programme is supported by Amethyst Radiotherapy UK in partnership with the NHS:
